When you hear the word discipleship, what comes to mind?
A class?
A Bible study?
A church program?
Those things can be helpful, but discipleship is more than a scheduled activity.
Discipleship is a way of life.
In Deuteronomy, God told His covenant people: “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.”
Notice where spiritual formation happens.
At home.
On the road.
At bedtime.
In the morning.
In ordinary conversations.
In everyday life.
God never meant for us to divide our lives between sacred and secular.
All of our life is to be sacred.
A disciple learns to follow Jesus at church, but also at the kitchen table,
at work,
in traffic,
during conflict,
while making decisions,
and when no one else is watching.
Discipleship is about bringing every part of your life under the loving lordship of God’s Holy Spirit.
This is where a Discipleship Partner can be so helpful. Together, you’re learning to ask:
“How does God’s Word shape my attitudes?”
How does it shape my words?
My priorities?
and my relationships?
Discipleship doesn’t happen in a classroom. It happens as you walk with Jesus ‘twenty-four seven’ in your daily life.
Jesus still says: “Follow Me! And I will make you fishers of men.”
